Eddie Cochran
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Comment by graham on April 12th, 2011 at 7:22 am
Hope you can use this from the USA.
If you are interested I have a great photo of the revamped memorial stone.
Eddie Cochran anniversary this Sunday April 17th.
It’s back!
Re the Eddie the Eddie Cochran October 3rd 1938-April 17th. memorial stone at St Martins Hospital Bath Somerset England. It was moved from its original place to its permanent place, behind the chapel
(a better site) we had a few problems with the stone as it was put down flat on the ground, not in an upright position, so all of the rain would settle in the groves of the gold lettering, this would start a chemical reaction over a year or so and would fade all of the gold lettering, the lettering almost disappeared, we had the gold lettering replaced, the same thing happened again, so now we had new gold lettering and the head of Eddie Cochran in silver renewed and more new granite added and put in an upright position, it is much larger and a real showpiece. Thanks to the man that did the work on the stone Mr. David Ashwell
The memorial was installed at St Martins in 1998. Myself (ex Bathonion living in the USA for the last 29 years) and a good friend Pete Morgan from Bristol UK have worked on this project from the start, it has been expensive but worth it.
I was lucky to be present at Eddie’s last show in Bristol; I was back stage for part of the show, Thank you Graham. F.V.Love.
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